Reactor At Chernobyl May Be Restarted In May

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April 24, 1998

KIEV, UKRAINE — The chief of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the world's worst civil nuclear accident, said Thursday that he planned to restart one of the plant's reactors next month. ``Reconstruction work on Reactor Number Three is completed,'' Sergei Parashin said at the plant about 80 miles north of Kiev. The reactor, the only one of four reactors that has functioned since Chernobyl's Number Four reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, was shut down last year after cracks were discovered in pipes in the cooling system.